Afrikaans - vlinder / skoenlapper
Albanian - flutur / flutur - butterfly, damper, spinner, fleeting /
stil flutur - butterfly
Arabic - (farash)
Armenian - թիթեռ (t’it’yerr)
Azerbaikani - kəpənək / kəpənək - butterfly, moth
gecəkəpənəyi - butterfly, moth / pərvanə - moth, butterfly
Basque - tximeleta / матыль - butterfly, moth
Balrusian - матылёк (matyliok) / матыль -- butterfly, moth
Bengali - (Prajāpati)
Blackfoot - apo'ni (People of the First Nations)
Bosnian - leptir
Bulgarian - peperuda / пеперуда – butterfly / бътерфлай -
butterfly, butterfly stroke / лекомислен човек -- butterfly, trifler, idler
Burmese - liutpyar
Catalan - papallona
Cebuano - alibangbang, kaba-kaba
Cherokee - ka-ma-ma (People of the First Nations)
Chinese (Simplified) - (Húdié)
Chinese (Traditional) - (Húdié)
Croatian - leptir
Czech - motýl / motýl – butterfly / motýlek - butterfly, bow
Danish - sommerfugl
Dutch - vlinder / vlinder – butterfly / kapel - chapel, oratory, butterfly, chantry
English - butterfly
Esperanto - papilio
Estonian - liblikas
Filipino - paruparo / paruparo – butterfly / paparo - butterfly
Finnish - perhonen / perhonen – butterfly / perho - fly, butterfly /
päiväperhonen - butterfly
French - papillon
Galician - bolboreta
Georgian - pepela
German - Schmetterling / der Schmetterling - butterfly
der Butterfly – butterfly / der Falter - butterfly, moth, lepidop
der Schmetterlingsstil - butterfly stroke, butterfly
Greek - πεταλούδα (petaloúda)
Gujarati - (Baṭaraphlāya) - butterfly
Haitian - (papiyon)
Hausa - malam buɗe ido
Hebrew - פרפר
Hindi - तितली (Titalī)
Hmong - npauj npaim / tus npauj npaim -- butterfly, moth
Hopi - povolhoya (People of the First Nations)
Hungarian - pillangó / pillangó – butterfly / lepke - butterfly
Icelandic - Butterfly / fiðrildi - butterfly
Igbo - urukurubụba / nru ububa -- butterfly
Indonesian - Kupu-kupu / kupu-kupu – butterfly / rama-rama - butterfly
Irish - féileacán / féileacán – butterfly / snámh féileacáin - butterfly
Italian - farfalla
Japanese - (Chō) / バタフライ -- butterfly
Javanese - kupu
Kannada - (Ciṭṭe)
Kazakh - көбелек (köbelek)
Khmer - (meambaw)
Korean - 나비 (nabi) / 나비 - butterfly, width, puss
Lakota - kimimela, kimimila (People of the First Nations)
Lao - butterfly
Latin - papilio
Latvian - tauriņš
Lithuanian - peteliškė / peteliškė -- butterfly / drugys -
fever, moth, butterfly, ague, the shakes
plaštakė -- butterfly, moth
Macedonian - пеперутка (peperutka) / пеперуга -- butterfly
Malagasy - lolo
Malay - rama-rama
Malayalam - (citaśalabhaṁ)
Maltese - farfett
Maori - pūrerehua
Marathi - (Phulapākharū)
Mongolian - эрвээхэй (erveekhei)
Navajo - K'aalogii (People of the First Nations)
Nepali - पुतली (Putalī)
Norwegian - butterfly
Nyanja - gulugufe
Persian - پروانه
Polish - motyl
Portugese - borboleta
Punjabi - (Titalī)
Romanian - fluture
Russian - бабочка (babochka)
Serbian - лептир (leptir)
Samoan - pepe
Sinhala - (samanaḷa)
Slovak - motýľ
Slovenian - metulj
Somali - balanbaalis
Spanish - mariposa
Sundanese - kukupu
Swahili - kipepeo
Swedish - fjäril
Tajik - бабочка (ʙaʙocka)
Tamil - பட்டாம்பூச்சி (Paṭṭāmpūcci)
Telugu - (Sītākōkaciluka)
Thai - (IP̄hīs̄eụ̄̂x)
Turkish - kelebek
Ukranian - метелик (metelyk)
Uzbek - kapalak
Vietnamese - con bướm
Welsh - iâr fach yr haf
Yiddish - פלאַטערל
Yoruba - flaterl
Zulu - butterfly